The quake is Sichuan is a disaster of enormous proportions. It hit an area where houses are built on mountainsides and are not designed to withstand strong earthquakes. There are building codes in force that would otherwise avoid murderous damage to buildings if enforced to the letter.
* Anything you enjoy gets less enjoyable if it becomes a job. * You can meet your Mr. or Ms. Right, but you cannot find them.
I don’t know what kind of a country China is. It’s so strange that China, as a heavy buyer of mineral ores, soybeans, crude oils, and everything, is not in a position to set prices for those things. I read news about Chinese importers being forced to accept ridiculous price hikes charged by foreign raw…
Read more
The year of 2008, a much anticipated, shiny year, is just less than one month away though I still cannot count the remaining days on my fingers and toes. Soon, it will be the routine New Year resolution poking its head out of its hole.
I’ve been very lazy in writing English posts. Partly because what I write in English here attracts a very small new audience who just reach this blog side of mine by accident and don’t stay for long. And my friends I met with blogging at Opera’s community didn’t seem to bother to be shunted over…
Read more
Narrow-mindedness might be a problem for people who don’t read history. Or, if they do, they might still have a provincial historical world view if their only history-reading experience has been in one single version of history, like history textbooks in Chinese schools. In both cases, they tend to be intolerant of other people who…
Read more
I just returned home from a hot two-hour bus trip to Beijing Capital Library, where I handed back an English language history book 36 days overdue and paid 7.2 yuan in overdue fine. This amount equals 72% of the library’s card annual fee.
Reading order of his novels: Digital Fortress, Angels and Demons, Deception Point, and The Da Vinci Code
最新评论